EAGER: Activity Awareness in Collaborative Information Analysis

EAGER：协作信息分析中的活动意识

• 批准号: 1450893
• 负责人: John Carroll
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1450893&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Activity; Awareness; Collaborative; Information

This project will investigate the concept of activity awareness, defined as a team's awareness of its own sustained collaborative activity. It is set in the context of online distributed work, an increasingly typical and chronic work arrangement. Awareness is a critical enabler of collaborative online activity. Collaborators need to know who is present, what partners are doing, and how individual activity coordinates and coheres into group endeavor. Collaborators need to keep track of how their teamwork is organized and managed, including team strategies and practices, and interdependent member responsibilities and roles. They need to keep track of their partners' relevant experiences, distinctive resources and unique knowledge, prior contributions and perspectives, as well as values, expectations, and goals. In continuing or longer-term interactions, addressing shared projects of greater scope and complexity, collaborators must be aware of the status of work along many fronts. Issues that were raised an hour ago, or a week ago, may nonetheless be critical again. It is important for research to examine, understand, and provide effective tools and environments for these longer-term and broader real-world CSCW interactions. The exploratory project has two primary goals: (1) further developing the concept of activity awareness, and (2) investigating empirical measures of activity awareness. First, developing the concept of activity awareness involves articulating and validating aspects of collaborative work activity that are critical to effective team coordination. The project will investigate how activity awareness is developed in teams, how it is facilitated and enhanced, and how it can be impeded or undermined. Second, the PI's prior research demonstrated several direct approaches to measuring activity awareness in complex laboratory reference tasks. A rich set of variables have been identified and developed in social and organizational psychology, but not investigated specifically as facilitators of or consequences of activity awareness. The project will design and carry out a laboratory study with a prototype tool and measure various facets of activity awareness and a number of contextual variables at both the individual and team levels to capture the complex and interdependent processes that occur throughout the project lifecycle.

该项目将调查活动意识的概念，该概念定义为团队对自己持续协作活动的意识。它设置为在线分布式工作的背景下，这是一种日益典型和慢性的工作安排。意识是协作在线活动的关键推动者。合作者需要知道谁在场，合作伙伴在做什么，以及个人活动如何竞争和共同参与团体努力。合作者需要跟踪如何组织和管理他们的团队合作，包括团队策略和实践，以及相互依存的会员职责和角色。他们需要跟踪合作伙伴的相关经验，独特的资源和独特的知识，先前的贡献和观点以及价值观，期望和目标。在持续或长期的互动中，解决具有更大范围和复杂性的共享项目，合作者必须意识到许多方面的工作状态。一个小时前或一周前提出的问题可能再次至关重要。研究重要的是要检查，理解并提供有效的工具和环境，以解决这些长期和更广泛的现实CSCW相互作用。探索性项目有两个主要目标：（1）进一步发展活动意识的概念，以及（2）研究活动意识的经验度量。首先，发展活动意识的概念涉及对有效团队协调至关重要的协作工作活动的表达和验证方面。该项目将调查如何在团队中发展活动意识，如何促进和增强以及如何阻碍或破坏它。其次，PI的先前研究证明了在复杂的实验室参考任务中测量活动意识的几种直接方法。在社会和组织心理学中已经确定和开发了许多变量，但并未专门研究活动意识的促进者或后果。该项目将使用原型工具设计并进行实验室研究，并在个人和团队级别上测量活动意识的各个方面以及许多上下文变量，以捕获整个项目生命周期中发生的复杂和相互依存的过程。